Product Management Job Trends

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Product Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 355 254 305
Rank change year-on-year -101 +51 -14
Permanent jobs citing Product Management 597 567 636
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.50% 1.14% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 1.29% 1.06%
Number of salaries quoted 309 258 306
10th Percentile £36,650 £44,549 £42,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,125 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £72,250 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.96% +3.21% -
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £117,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £63,304
% change year-on-year -4.00% -1.27% -2.61%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,526 44,119 60,045
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.14% 89.04% 81.91%
Number of salaries quoted 59,327 24,381 32,429
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Management

Product Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 6 months to 6 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -92 527 £60,000 -17.24% 2,239
London -36 301 £71,121 -11.10% 1,347
UK excluding London -148 238 £60,000 -4.00% 1,146
Work from Home -10 193 £58,940 -15.80% 1,122
North of England -41 66 £60,000 -23.81% 210
South East -90 57 £42,000 -32.80% 282
North West +1 52 £65,250 -5.09% 120
Midlands -50 37 £48,500 -24.81% 153
South West -62 36 £60,000 - 122
West Midlands -29 27 £48,500 -15.65% 86
East of England -35 22 £70,000 +6.87% 127
Scotland +3 13 £77,500 +82.35% 163
Yorkshire -40 13 £57,500 -29.23% 63
East Midlands -28 10 £38,347 -48.87% 67
Northern Ireland -94 4 - - 41
Wales -68 3 £65,000 +8.59% 54
North East -65 1 - - 29

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 45 (7.54%) Confluence
2 21 (3.52%) CMS
3 6 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.50%) ArcGIS
4 3 (0.50%) Drupal
5 1 (0.17%) Apache
5 1 (0.17%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.17%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.17%) WordPress
Applications
1 23 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 15 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Project
5 7 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.17%) Moqups
6 5 (0.84%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.34%) Adobe Premiere
7 2 (0.34%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.34%) Trello
8 1 (0.17%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 20 (3.35%) Workfront
2 13 (2.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.84%) SAP PSCD
4 5 (0.84%) Shopify
5 3 (0.50%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.50%) iTrent
6 2 (0.34%) Fidessa
6 2 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.17%) Eikon
7 1 (0.17%) Magento
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.17%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.17%) PeopleSoft HCM
7 1 (0.17%) RMDS
7 1 (0.17%) SAP ECC
7 1 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 75 (12.56%) SaaS
2 72 (12.06%) AWS
3 40 (6.70%) Azure
4 20 (3.35%) iPaaS
5 17 (2.85%) Figma
5 17 (2.85%) Power Platform
6 16 (2.68%) GCP
7 15 (2.51%) Google Workspace
8 11 (1.84%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (1.51%) Anthropic Claude
10 8 (1.34%) GitHub
10 8 (1.34%) GitHub Copilot
11 7 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
11 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Copilot
12 6 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
13 5 (0.84%) Copilot Studio
13 5 (0.84%) Power Automate
13 5 (0.84%) Zapier
14 4 (0.67%) Amazon Bedrock
15 3 (0.50%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.69%) HTTP
2 24 (4.02%) Broadband
3 11 (1.84%) Firewall
4 10 (1.68%) WAN
5 8 (1.34%) DNS
5 8 (1.34%) LAN
6 7 (1.17%) SD-WAN
7 6 (1.01%) DHCP
7 6 (1.01%) NX-OS
8 5 (0.84%) MPLS
9 4 (0.67%) Multicast
9 4 (0.67%) SAN
10 3 (0.50%) CTI
10 3 (0.50%) Internet
10 3 (0.50%) Intranet
10 3 (0.50%) Network Security
10 3 (0.50%) TCP/IP
10 3 (0.50%) VSAT
10 3 (0.50%) WLAN
11 2 (0.34%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (4.02%) Metadata
2 16 (2.68%) Power BI
3 8 (1.34%) Big Data
4 7 (1.17%) SQL Server
5 6 (1.01%) BigQuery
6 4 (0.67%) Electronic Patient Records
7 3 (0.50%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (0.34%) Mixpanel
8 2 (0.34%) MySQL
8 2 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.34%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
9 1 (0.17%) BusinessObjects
9 1 (0.17%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.17%) Db2
9 1 (0.17%) GIS
9 1 (0.17%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.17%) Redis
9 1 (0.17%) SAP HANA
9 1 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 72 (12.06%) JIRA
2 11 (1.84%) Git
3 10 (1.68%) Claude Code
4 9 (1.51%) GitLab
4 9 (1.51%) Selenium
5 8 (1.34%) Postman
6 7 (1.17%) Cypress.io
7 5 (0.84%) Jenkins
8 4 (0.67%) JUnit
9 2 (0.34%) TestNG
10 1 (0.17%) Fiddler
10 1 (0.17%) Visual Studio
General
1 191 (31.99%) Social Skills
2 181 (30.32%) Finance
3 162 (27.14%) Marketing
4 91 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
5 81 (13.57%) Law
6 71 (11.89%) Banking
6 71 (11.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 56 (9.38%) Presentation Skills
8 43 (7.20%) Retail
9 41 (6.87%) Influencing Skills
10 37 (6.20%) Organisational Skills
11 36 (6.03%) Manufacturing
12 35 (5.86%) Public Sector
13 24 (4.02%) Legal
14 22 (3.69%) Electronics
15 20 (3.35%) Telecoms
16 17 (2.85%) Publishing
17 14 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
18 11 (1.84%) Financial Institution
19 8 (1.34%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 161 (26.97%) Product Manager
2 92 (15.41%) Lead
3 72 (12.06%) Senior
4 51 (8.54%) Product Owner
5 48 (8.04%) Software Engineer
6 35 (5.86%) Lead Software Engineer
6 35 (5.86%) Senior Manager
7 29 (4.86%) Development Engineer
7 29 (4.86%) Software Development Engineer
8 23 (3.85%) Product Lead
9 21 (3.52%) Senior Product Manager
10 16 (2.68%) Senior Software Engineer
10 16 (2.68%) Technical Manager
11 15 (2.51%) Development Manager
12 14 (2.35%) Architect
13 12 (2.01%) Business Analyst
13 12 (2.01%) Delivery Manager
13 12 (2.01%) Marketing Manager
13 12 (2.01%) Project Manager
14 11 (1.84%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (6.37%) REST
2 17 (2.85%) HTML
3 15 (2.51%) Google Maps API
4 13 (2.18%) React
5 12 (2.01%) Terraform
6 9 (1.51%) LangChain
6 9 (1.51%) XML
7 8 (1.34%) PyTorch
7 8 (1.34%) TensorFlow
8 7 (1.17%) Spring
9 6 (1.01%) Pandas
9 6 (1.01%) Spring Boot
10 5 (0.84%) CrewAI
10 5 (0.84%) CSS
10 5 (0.84%) LlamaIndex
10 5 (0.84%) SAP Fiori
11 4 (0.67%) FIX Protocol
11 4 (0.67%) LangGraph
11 4 (0.67%) NumPy
11 4 (0.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 177 (29.65%) Product Ownership
2 39 (6.53%) Management Information System
3 37 (6.20%) AI Agents
4 32 (5.36%) Public Cloud
5 30 (5.03%) Social Media
6 29 (4.86%) Onboarding
7 22 (3.69%) Marketing Technology
8 20 (3.35%) Over-the-Top Content
9 16 (2.68%) Augmented Reality
9 16 (2.68%) Cloud Native
10 15 (2.51%) Virtual Reality
11 14 (2.35%) Data Centre
11 14 (2.35%) Distributed Systems
12 13 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
13 12 (2.01%) Biopharmaceutical
13 12 (2.01%) Driving Licence
13 12 (2.01%) Web Conferencing
14 11 (1.84%) Online Banking
15 10 (1.68%) Blog
15 10 (1.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (2.85%) Linux
2 16 (2.68%) Windows
3 4 (0.67%) Unix
4 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (0.50%) Windows Server
4 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.17%) Android
5 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.17%) CentOS
5 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 315 (52.76%) Roadmaps
2 209 (35.01%) Agile
3 167 (27.97%) Product Roadmap
4 158 (26.47%) AI
5 146 (24.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 140 (23.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 124 (20.77%) Decision-Making
8 106 (17.76%) Problem-Solving
9 105 (17.59%) Product Strategy
10 101 (16.92%) Customer Experience
11 95 (15.91%) Product Vision
12 90 (15.08%) Analytics
13 89 (14.91%) Project Management
14 87 (14.57%) Software Engineering
15 86 (14.41%) User Stories
16 84 (14.07%) Product Backlog
17 73 (12.23%) User Experience
18 71 (11.89%) Strategic Roadmap
19 70 (11.73%) Coaching
20 69 (11.56%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 48 (8.04%) Java
2 42 (7.04%) Python
3 16 (2.68%) SQL
4 12 (2.01%) JavaScript
4 12 (2.01%) TypeScript
5 11 (1.84%) C++
6 9 (1.51%) PowerShell
7 5 (0.84%) ABAP
8 4 (0.67%) Bash
8 4 (0.67%) C#
8 4 (0.67%) R
9 3 (0.50%) MATLAB
9 3 (0.50%) PHP
10 2 (0.34%) Perl
11 1 (0.17%) C
11 1 (0.17%) XPath
Qualifications
1 147 (24.62%) Degree
2 43 (7.20%) Master's Degree
3 32 (5.36%) Security Cleared
4 31 (5.19%) MBA
5 27 (4.52%) SC Cleared
6 13 (2.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (1.68%) HND
7 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (1.51%) HNC
8 9 (1.51%) PhD
8 9 (1.51%) PMP
9 7 (1.17%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (1.17%) CSPO
9 7 (1.17%) PMI Certification
10 6 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (1.01%) CCNA
10 6 (1.01%) MCSE
11 5 (0.84%) SAP Certification
12 4 (0.67%) AWS Certification
12 4 (0.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.37%) QA
2 19 (3.18%) Accessibility
3 15 (2.51%) SLA
4 13 (2.18%) Data Quality
5 9 (1.51%) PMO
6 7 (1.17%) GDPR
7 3 (0.50%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.34%) DICOM
8 2 (0.34%) HL7
8 2 (0.34%) ISO 20022
8 2 (0.34%) NIST
8 2 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.17%) DO-178B
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.17%) PERC
9 1 (0.17%) SEPA
System Software
1 9 (1.51%) Docker
1 9 (1.51%) Firmware
1 9 (1.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
2 6 (1.01%) vSphere
3 5 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 4 (0.67%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.17%) KVM
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (1.51%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.01%) FortiGate
3 3 (0.50%) WSUS
4 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.17%) Amdocs OSS
5 1 (0.17%) Ansible
5 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (0.17%) Forefront Identity Manager
5 1 (0.17%) Kibana
5 1 (0.17%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 52 (8.71%) Microsoft
2 30 (5.03%) Salesforce
3 25 (4.19%) Google
4 23 (3.85%) Adobe
5 17 (2.85%) OpenAI
6 15 (2.51%) Cisco
6 15 (2.51%) Facebook
7 13 (2.18%) SAP
8 12 (2.01%) Oracle
8 12 (2.01%) Workday
9 9 (1.51%) VMware
10 6 (1.01%) Juniper
11 5 (0.84%) FIS
11 5 (0.84%) Fortinet
11 5 (0.84%) YouTube
12 3 (0.50%) Aderant
12 3 (0.50%) CA Agile Central
12 3 (0.50%) Fujitsu
12 3 (0.50%) iManage
12 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow